News from Home

1977, 1h 29min -

Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa 1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule. Show more

"News from Home" — movie produced in Belgium, France and Germany and released in 1977. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.3 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 29min. "News from Home" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel and for rent and to buy on Apple TV. Click on a playlink to watch it now!